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| [1]In the twelfth year, in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, |
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| [2]Son of man, set thy face against Pharao king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against the whole of Egypt: |
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| [3]and say, |
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| [4]And I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy river to stick to thy sides, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy river: |
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| [5]and I will quickly cast down thee and all the fish of thy river: thou shalt fall on the face of the plain, and shalt by no means be gathered, and shalt not be brought together: I have given thee for food to the wild beasts of the earth and to the fowls of the sky. |
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| [6]And all the dwellers in Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because thou hast been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. |
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| [7]When they took hold of thee with their hand, thou didst break: and when every hand was clapped against them, and when they leaned on thee, thou wast utterly broken, and didst crush the loins of them all. |
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| [8]Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and will cut off from thee man and beast; |
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| [9]and the land of Egypt shall be ruined and desert; and they shall know that I am the Lord; because thou sayest, The rivers are mine, and I made them. |
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| [10]Therefore, behold, I am against thee, and against all thy rivers, and I will give up the land of Egypt to desolation, and the sword, and destruction, from Magdol and Syene even to the borders of the Ethiopians. |
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| [11]No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it, and it shall not be inhabited for forty years. |
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| [12]And I will cause her land to be utterly destroyed in the midst of a land that is desolate, and her cities shall be desolate forty years in the midst of cities that are desolate: and I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and will utterly scatter them into the countries. |
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| [13]Thus saith the Lord; After forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations among whom they have been scattered; |
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| [14]and I will turn the captivity of the Egyptians, and will cause them to dwell in the land of Phathore, in the land whence they were taken; |
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| [15]and it shall be a base kingdom beyond all other kingdoms; it shall not any more be exalted over the nations; and I will make them few in number, that they may not be great among the nations. |
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| [16]And they shall no more be to the house of Israel a confidence bringing iniquity to remembrance, when they follow after them; and they shall know that I am the Lord. |
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| [17]And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, |
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| [18]Son of man, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre; every head was bald, and every shoulder peeled; yet there was no reward to him or to his army serving against Tyre, nor for the service wherewith they served against it. |
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| [19]Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will give to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon the land of Egypt, and he shall take the plunder thereof, and seize the spoils thereof; and it shall be a reward for his army. |
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| [20]In return for his service wherewith he served against Tyre, I have given him the land of Egypt; thus saith the Lord God: |
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| [21]In that day shall a horn spring forth for all the house of Israel, and I will give thee an open mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the Lord. |
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